You ever stop working on something and when you come back it's better than you remember and you get the unshakeable feeling that if you try to work on this any more, that you're just gonna fuck it up and make it look worse?

>>3795656I hate myself for having spent my youth jacking off and playing video games instead of doing anything else.I'm bad. I'm missing deadlines like the manchild that I am.And all I can do is vent on a dumb 4chink board. I hate letting life getting the better of me.

>>3795656Help, I'm pretty decent at drawing but 25% of the time I will sit down to draw and I literally can't remember how to draw form. Every sort of perspective or idea becomes a warped symbol or unidentifiable mess of scribble and It's incredibly frusturating. I just forget how anything works, its not artist block its just an inability to *get it up i guess. How do I get over this roadblock :"(? It's frequent and recurring and feels like being able to draw is a roll of the dice. Help. (not depressed)

>>3795957Try using simple shapes like cubes and ellipsoids and draw in their form lines (you should draw an ellipse inside a circle to indicate it's a sphere) and then layer what you need on top of it. If you can't draw cubes and cylinders, it's over, NGMI.>>3796169If you're approaching things from a grounded way and still getting bad results, try taking a break or finding an artistic reference for what you're trying to do.

my draftsmanship and lineweight are fucking terrible, it makes me so goddamn mad. will getting a mechanical pencil make it easier to improve these things or do i just need more practice? currently using an hb pencil.

>>3796210I use a mechanical pencil and personally I love it. I prefer it over standard pencils, and over pens (tho the deep blacks of pens are a cut above pencil lead). I love the weights I can get with a mechanical pencilIt may indeed be an issue of practice but I recommend getting a mechanical pencil to try out.

>>3796117Thank you for your patience. All of our anon's are currently busy. Please continue to wait and your question will be answered in the order it was received. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU

>>3795663You simply have bad habits. Self hatred wont help you ether. Ideally you could have someone in your life to help motivate you and to remind you to draw, help you move in the right direction. If you don't have that then you need to learn self-discipline along with self-motivation. Trust me I know how you feel, I may be projecting but you probably feel like you will always be a fuck up, you feel like you will never change, because every time you try to change you end up falling back into your old bad habits and this cycle has been repeating itself for years on end. Believe me when I tell you that it is possible to change your ways, it's possible to develop better habits, you can do it man.

>>3797380I've had this happen a couple of times, I think it's because you lose perspective of what's actually good, and think you're doing better, but you're doing exactly the same or even worse than before.Still, i don't really know, it's really confusing lol

>>3798595>hardest skill to learn>a kid can pick up a rock and draw in dirt within seconds/ic/ is a joke.>b-but that's not real drawingWay to draw out the definition and not judge other skills by the same standard.

>>3798657Jiro plays life like a game. Trying to maximize potential of every single ingredient and every single step of the process. In that sense, he simply makes it harder on himself because it's a luck game in which the best materials have to appear in front of him all at exactly the right time and place. It was an exciting documentary. Although probably not best to take his beliefs unto yourself unless you're able to stay sane.

>>3795656Trying to do some human skull studies today but I'm having trouble finding one of those images that shows how far certain anatomical structures are from one another (like, the eyes are exactly one eye space away each other, the bottom of the nostril is equivalent to the bottom of the ear, that sort of thing.) Could anyone give me a hand on what to search so I can find something like that?

>you probably feel like you will always be a fuck up, you feel like you will never change, because every time you try to change you end up falling back into your old bad habits and this cycle has been repeating itself

that hit me right in the gut, i feel like people are drawn to this board that feel this way, and might be part of why its such a negative experience. so many mean shitposts are surely projections from those of us who are mad about art and life in general. i hope you anons get through your struggles and begin loving art again. too many times have i drawn furry pin ups to put groceries in the fridge, i think im a goner /vent

>>3798882>not judge other skills by the same standardAll skills can be judged by the standard you just used. A kid can find a piano and just smash keys on it, a kid can throw a bunch of stuff in a pot and call it cooking, a kid can do 1+1=2.

>>3796914No you're gonna dump your monitor and keyboard on the floor so fast that way. Get a normal desk, put your monitor up on some books or something to put it up to the height you need, and get a table easel for your tablet.

>>3798879Probably because you've done much more learning from tutorials/livestreams/studies of artists you like, instead of your fundamentals, right?

Study from life, learn your fundamentals, make them your bitch. You'll be enlightened and suddenly you'll understand what people mean when they say "study your fundies and life drawing first and your style will come to you naturally"

>>3795656>drawfag for a thread>get some (you)'s and thanks and that's it>there's another drawfag too>the thread immediately turns all their attention to him, going ecstatic and treats him like a celebrity, newfags asking for his blog etcI'M TRYING MY BEST FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKWhere else can I post my shit for some validation?

>>3800301Your problem seemed interesting so I played around a bit in brush settings.You can make a ( ) shaped tip to emulate the effect, but the edges will draw on top of each other.Another way to do it is to get a round tip and a round dual brush, smaller than the tip. Set it to linear height and adjust transfer to make it look like it cuts through the tip. The edges won't draw on top of each other on the same stroke. This doesn't work with size control though.

Is it possible to not enjoy art as much as someone else but still want to get good at it, at least to an intermediate level/twitter artist skill if that term means anything to you?Basically>find out i like drawing as a kid.>never draw too much, during some years i dropped drawing entirely because i saw it just as a little hobby and didn't consider any career/development.>eventually get serious with it (months ago)>realize everyone else that wants to become a pro puts in massive amounts of work>mfw i draw 1 hour a day on average and that's it.Like, I get discipline is a big thing if you want to do something like this, but some of the artists I admire put huge amounts of work in simply due to enjoyment, or so I see.What do you guys think? I'm planning to make a schedule and build a habit, but I'm still bewildered I tend to be so unmotivated in art when these people have seemingly endless energy and only occassionally have art slumps.

>>3802518If you don't feel the passion to be drawing 24/7 you probably shouldn't force yourself since you will just burn out and resent it also I wouldn't aim for pro if you don't have that drive there already.There is nothing wrong with doing art as you feel like it and keeping it as an active hobby while you pursue other main careers especially since going pro can have so much luck involved it's not the best to hedge bets on it.

I exported one of my PS brushes with AbrMate and used the texture to create a brush in CSP but the brush is extremely laggy at sizes above 140px. Anybody know why that could be? It honestly goes for many brushes in CSP, performance is absolute dogshit. Intuos L/WinTab mode/CSP color mixing turned off/high brush gap but it still happens.

>>3795656so I'm a begfag and I have always wonder thisWhen I search for painting progress for funI see one kind of artist draw sketch then refine line then color/render etc etcI see another paint a blob of paint then refine the silhouettes shape and edge then renderso can anyone tell me what the pro and con of each and how will the result different

>>3802585Doing things differently broadens your horizons and teaches you new ways to think and work through things. Some people find out they feel more comfortable doing it one way or the other. Working with large shapes and blobs at the start tends to be a more exploratory method where you're not really sure what you want to do, but you just start putting paint on the canvas then search for things that catch your eye and grow them into ideas. But you can still use this method even if you have a clear idea of what you want to do.Sketching with line is the most comfortable way to start out for most people I think. Try everything because that's the only way to truly appreciate what everything means.

At minimum, what materials should a $30,000 oil painting be made out of? Is there some special canvas that ensures it lasts forever? Certain brands of paint that are deemed worthy? I'm a fairly talented layperson, I want to "practice" oil painting by just painting full pieces each time, and hopefully if I ever am really good and in demand it'll all be worth something

>>3802871Don't get ahead of yourself. There's a much higher chance you'll waste money on expensive oils rather than ever sell a painting for thirty grand. Unless you've already sold something for a decent amount, in which case you're better off asking art dealer connection rather than 4chan anons.

How do I stop being heavy handed when I draw? I noticed that when I try to draw lightly, it either all comes out very dark, or I just have trouble holding my pencil and drawing lightly to the point to where I can barely make a straight line.

>>3804190There's not a lot of clean money to be had out there. I would if I could. Just remember your 'per hour wage' and whether or not you'd rather spend ~$10-20/hr to be watching netflix then doodling some furfags shit.

Tired question I know but help me find this brush/textureIt seems like a simple enough pastel/pencil brush but I can't quite reproduce it I use CSP, I've been messing with brush tip and texture but no luckArtist is @triuni_h

>>3805083It'd be nice to avoid carpel tunnel. And more ways to do the same thing is always a nice skill to have, especially if you ever get a bigger tablet or someone wants your help doing something arty in the real world.

>>3804190from someone who does this shit when they need money and NEETs the rest of the time:

I can't fucking stand it. I hate it. I feel like shit drawing it. I can jack off to furry porn and it's fine, but drawing it feels awful. It made me fall out of love with art. Just make a portfolio and use upwork for beginner jobs, please anon, save yourself from the furfag cesspool. It's taken by autistic kids who really love furries and Slavic art students who manipulate the currency exchange anyway

>>3805560With just a box? I mean stuff like that is a lot eaiser to tell if you have a bunch of stuff that can be out of perspective. It's less important when you have a total of 6 lines, more important when you have several dozen lines on top and overlapping each other.

But yes, the perspective looks off, you can check this for yourself by dragging the lines out to where they would want to meet, and see that they don't all meet at the same spot

>>3795663Stop bitching, stop making up excuses. You know you’re a lazy fuck, don’t sleep on your laurels and start working. The start will be the most painful shit in the world until you get used to your new routines

>>3802999You could replicate this easily in Photoshop. Don't rely on other people's brushes, learn to make your own, it's not hard.

I see a mixture of simple round brushes with varying opacity and edge hardness. You don't need a "watercolor" brush for this, you just need to gain confidence with basic brushes, and learn how they work and what their entire range of variables is.

I've been using tablets and a 34HD cintiq for years, I've only ever downloaded on brush, a pencil brush, the rest I make as needed, and save my favorites.

(The pencil brush I use is "Pencil_Brush_by_KoiFishSushi", I've had it forever, there might even be better ones out, but I'm comfortable and familiar with this one.)

90% of the time I use a plain old round brush, and vary the opacity, repeat, and edge hardness. Sometimes I get exotic - I wanted good lightning bolts for a project, so I went outside and dug up a bunch of roots in the yard, washed them off, and threw them on the scanner. I used them to create lightning bolt brushes, that ended up looking pretty cool. If I want a texture like cloth or noise, I scan something or use a texture file and build a brush - that's all the guys who sell brushes do.

Is making it in the industry even worth it?In high school I used to draw all the time. I used to want to be a concept artist who specialized in monsters. But I was told that people who drew furries and porn (both stuff I've drawn) get blacklisted. And it made me paranoid of the cringey-chunni midde-school past being dug up. Now I hate the direction of videos games. I kind of dropped out from trying to make it as a concept artist. I still like the idea but hate the thought of losing creative freedom.Now I'm debating if going on the pateron porn artist path is better.

On commissions (especially bigger ones) i get in a weird headspace where i since /ic/ taught me to strive and never be complacent i feel like i can never work at the expectation the clients want me to, despite working my hardest. But each of them have been satisfied since they saw the level of work on my tumblr/HF and the work i deliver is around the same quality.

I have no reason to feel down about it because in the end there's no problem but i can't beat myself up thinking i won't do a good job (when i do).

>>3796284I have a warning about at least the surface pro 4 and 5. Got a used SP4 to replace my dying laptop and be able to draw with it but it started having screen shaking/blurring. It turns out that Microsoft didn't ensure proper cooling for even minimal load (1 web browser window) and it overheats causing the screen digitizer to mess up. Not all of them have this issue but a large number do and there is no software fix aside from a shit workaround that updates the screen every few seconds that'll correct it temporarily. Microsoft's solution was to offer to replace it within a time limit but even the newest model has the same problem.

>>3798595No. As a science fag I can say confidently there are always harder tasks and fields of study. Everything has a learning curve and anything can seem ridiculously hard depending on where you are on it.

>>3802914Something that helped me was practicing just hovering slightly over the paper with the pencil, making circles and lines in the air. Just focus on holding the pencil stable and not touching the paper. This makes sure that you're not relying on pressing the pencil to the paper to keep it steady. You might also want to experiment with adjusting your grip.

>>3800301This is much more of a vector graphics effect than a raster one. This is a shit solution depending on if you want to do actual drawing but Inkscape handles all strokes as vector paths with an outline and body that you can manipulate separately. You could import your work into inkscape, do the outlined strokes then import back to krita/photoshop/sai/ms pain or whatever to continue drawing.

Who else can't get the motivation to read through the art books in the sticky? I'm fine with grinding through practice for hours each day but I become impatient reading through art books. I wanted to know if anyone in the same situation found alternatives that feel more pleasant. Call this a spoon-feeding if you want but I'm not interested in "making it" as a professional artist, merely being in a situation where I'm satisfied with my progression so I can enjoy drawing more.

What are some digital tools or tips that /ic/ uses? Been transitioning to digital from paper and it's been frustrating, then I find out certain things exist like pureref or certain settings in krita. Also what shortcuts do people assign on their tablet, I don't normally have room for a keyboard, mouse and tablet so I'm not sure what functions to prioritize.

>>3806110I mean, if you can't understand that I don't know how to help you. It's like the difference between playing ball with your friends on a weekend and practicing very specific drills everyday for hours on a blistering sun.

I just want to draw as i always have, why the hell have i been acting up for the past month? I don't understand. I want to draw so badly but my head will start to hurt like crazy… It's not even to update art blogs or stuff like that, i just want to draw. Fuck, man. I try to put on some music, get in the zone, use references, switch back and forth from traditional and digital, nothing works. My head starts to hurt 5 minutes into drawing. Maybe it's the autism, or something like that.

Is there a good 3d model cast of the body with simple forms like the Asaro head? Most of the stuff I see on Sketchfab is either too amateurish to study from or it's overly detailed. I just want the simple form.

what do y'all think is good? i like the samsung s3/s4 but desu i don't really care about specs as long as it has pressure sensitivity and isn't too skinny (as in in, significantly longer than it is wide)

>>3807278>How do I live knowing that I'll always be a subpar artist?First get that idea out of your head. People out in the world aren't as harsh as /ic/ also remember the average person doesn't have a trained artist eye and probably won't even notice the mistakes we notice. Always strive to get better, but don't let it stop you from getting work done. I've seen art around my town be it in, parks, restaurants, hotels and malls that have flawed artwork, but the people who made those works still got paid. Only other artist will notice your art mistakes, unless they're really really bad.

I've been pursuing art for some years now, usually i do very different stuff than this, but every now and then i draw this sorta stuff. Very lately tho, I've run to some financial issues, especially with taxes and insurances. So i was thinking if maybe doing some porn on the side could help a little bit at least. I live in third world country so i don't need that much overall. I dont really mind doing furry stuff or fetishes.

You guys got any advices for kicking off my porn drawing career? I can render/paint pretty well besides that if that's any help.Anything goes really, platforms that i can post on, tags, communities etc.

>>3807352/ic/'s harshness has nothing on my own self criticism. I'm tired of finding way better, more ~talented~ artists everywhere I go. I'm worried that I'm getting too old and won't improve. I made no gains last year.

>>3806007I haven't looked at the sticky in a long time but forget about books that are Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain and any Loomis if you're a beginner. Too much art material talks about art as something mystical and intangible instead of something concrete that you can practice and improve on. The better books have prose that is interesting to read and applicable to the lessons being taught instead of shooting sunshine up your butt.

>>3806021I keep my left hand on my keyboard and draw with my right hand. I use mostly keyboard shortcuts because they're all easy to reach and sometimes with different programs I forget what I have the tablet buttons set to beyond my top two which are create layer and delete layer. Optimize your screen space and learn shortcuts. I find digital most similar to ink and marker work in terms of workflow, also get used to painting then switching to eraser to get the shape you want with more control (a lot of programs let you switch to eraser by holding E, letting go will spring it back to the previous tool you were using like a brush). Also much less work planning ahead.

>>3807429>is there a difference between just taking a photo of my hand or finding a picture of these things to use?Yes. Your hand is right fucking there unless you're an amputee. Transferring a 3D object you observe in life is different than copying a picture where all the hard work is already done for you. If you don't have a pepper, find something else similarly organic.

>>3807955You can pretty much make anything physical with digital and viseversa, it's just a question of how good you are at the materials and workspace and how much time you're willing to put in to make something look good.

But to make something of that level starting from nothing, would probably take you over a decade of training, if not longer.

>>3807955it will take a very long time, I know that much I can't see how you'd be able to paint something like that in less than 5 years, and even then that would be some insane progression and grinding as the apprentice of a skilled painter

what's true is that the sooner you start the earlier you'll be able to paint at that level

>>3807955Well, it took the artist Guillermo Lorca to reach a level of skill at 30 to produce it, so I'd say at least 10 years, with art education and training in classical technique. (Which digital does not do way with the need for)

>getting the ambition to draw again after a long pause of 5-6 years >draw again, feeling happy with the help of references and shit. Improve without even drawing.>3 days pass, i wanna give up again because i dont improve to god-level intantlyHow do i stop this shit gut feeling ,/ic/? Why am i being a raging fag?

I don't mean practically how it works, we've all seen the charts on complimentary colors and shit, I get that. Has there ever been a decent explanation of WHY, say, humans like orange and blue mixed together in certain ratios? The closest I can get is 'some arcane evolutionary biology' but I think more precision would be really interesting.

Does construction eventually lead you to being able to visualize things on paper? At the moment I feel like construction is more of an algorithm that you follow and trust that you end up with something that looks right. But I can never feel it as I'm working through it.

>>3809851Start looking at the psychology of color. It's a pretty well researched field. Nobody knows why, because we don't have that level of knowledge of how the brain works, but we've studied the effects of color on people. It's not stuff I've dived deep into, but I know there's a lot of material out there.

Any good method to do this when working digitally? Was invaluable in figure drawing class although sometimes I got headaches, and doing it with a bright screen has at one point given me a migraine. Was wondering if there was a better method of doing this that translates well to a digital medium.

>>3809851different frequencies of light effect our brain and cause it to do different shit which produces different chemicals and fires certain synapses that produce various results which lead to our brain interpreting colors schemes in certain ways?

>>3809745Try drawing glasses onto heads you've done before, or even just draw them on top of ref photos till you get the hang of it. The legs and nose parts are always on the same place so focus most on the lenses and you're good.

>>3810075Turn down the brightness of your screen, google bluelightfilter (flux). As for the measuring digitally, I guess you could put your physical measuring utensil directly on to the screen if you wanted.

>>3810366Create over tens of thousands of them until you create a single meme. From then on, the fame will continue. Although it’s all algorithm based so you have to be in the corporation’s favor and approval to get noticed.

>>3795656Does anybody know what program is used to do Yugioh card backgrounds? I really like the effects the artists use in the backgrounds but I can't figure out how to do it. Is there a technique or is a digital tool? Surely people don't paint this stuff by hand, right?

Stupid Question:I'm getting better at my portraits and was thinking about sitting in heavily frequented areas or at markets in my small town. What sort of things should I consider?At the moment, I'm aware of stall fees at markets and I'm thinking I will need a gazebo or massive umbrella for UV protection (Australian summer) which I can't quite afford at the moment, which makes sitting inside pubs or sports bars more attractive but I don't want to piss off the managers or something. I'm kind of stumped about lighting because I really like to dramatically light my subjects for the best result, but I think I'd need a few props, a source of electricity and a bit of space to set a proper booth up or something. Would it boost me positively or professionally as an artist or would I be more of a nuisance? As an opportunity to make $30 x 20min sketch I feel horribly unprepared, but I need to make some money and a broader visual library.

Is there a screentones and/or comic book effects Plugin for Photoshop? I'm looking for the same shit that Manga Studio has, but I can't use Manga studio. for some reason the copy I have sucks and uses up all of my RAM.

I'm studying from Loomis's book. In this image, when Loomis says I should draw theses, does he means I should directly copy it(not tracing) or that I should draw the box, then the mannikin and finally adding bulk to the frame in those positions?I think this is the right way, and also the best way to learn, but I don't if I'm right.

>get hopeful and motivated to join the csp contest>write a script>find out it's only open for those enrolled in classes>feel sorry for myself all over again for being a dropout.every time something good happens it's snatched from under my nose. I know logically I should "count my blessings" but it doesn't work. (I guess that's another example of feeling sorry for myself.) How do I stop?! What am I getting out of feeling sorry for myself?!

How do you handle overly entitled patrons? Everyone so far has been super nice, but lately I have this guy that keeps wanting to tell me what to draw next and making snarky comments when I don’t do it.

>>3815383Message him that while you do love everyone that supports your ability to do this, what you draw is ultimately up to you, and that all his nagging and snarking isn't helping anyone.

If he quiets down, good, if he doesn't you probably don't need his $10/month to deal with his shit, so go ahead and boot him/block him(I have no idea if you can do that on patron, but I imagine you could)

>>3816030i use it so my hand's oils don't fuck up the surface. if you've ever used paper you know that your hand doesn't move the smoothest on that either so you use another piece of paper of the same type to glide along. glove helps you glide along the surface easily.

>>3795656I have a cracked version of CSP, but I'd like to buy it for real. Will I run into any issues if I try installing it over what I already have? Do I have to worry about losing all my current settings and brushes?

>>3796169I notice I get this way if I'm not well rested.If I'm on the first half of my day everything flows nicely and looks at minimum agreeable. If I'm on the second half of my day everything I do is shit or uninspired (especially if it's getting close to when I sleep).

>>3818938Does the manga take the story in the exact same direction as you planned to? When no don't feel down anon many stories have the same concept, but how the author takes the concept is the most important thing. And never forget that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe most famous work is basically a fanfiction.

>>3819221I use a "traditional" grip, so when the pencil can't rest against my hand at the other end from the drawing end, it goes into the pencil box. So, like 3, 4"? I mostly use lead holders these days, for this exact issue. You get more use out of lead sticks, and don't end up with a box of pencil stubs.

>>3818885Sleep is important. If you want to have/boost stamina, regular sleep periods are needed, and 6-8 hours for decent REM sleep.

And, everyone is different. I'm more productive in the afternoon/evening, mornings are the time for me to organize, get shit non-creative done, etc. I can't focus if I have other shit to do. Working professionally, I learned a long time ago to schedule meetings, do email/phone calls, research, organizing, shit like that is best in the morning, and then I focus on work for the rest of the day. If I don't get some decent sleep, it kind of sucks hard - melatonin is my friend sometimes.

How do you paint with a hard brush without tearing your hair out?I started as a beginner and got on the blending meme too early, I want to rectify that by building experience with a hard brush as it's recommended, but holy shit, how do you handle soft edges with a hard brush?Like what is the actual process? Do you color pick every other second and go over it again and again? It seems like a massive time waste and incredibly boring

>>3819887Well if there actually is a soft edge, such as on a sphere's shading, then you can use a smudge tool on hard lines. However, nearly all the planes of the face in a portrait can be done with a hard brush, and any soft edges needed should be made with a smudge tool and not an airbrush because smudging preserves the thickness of the main color. However, you should practice shading a sphere with only a hard brush, and not even too much blending. It can look quite nice.

I feel like my art is good enough to start making things like comics and sorry based artwork, but I have this problem where I don't know what or how to do it. I want to start a comic but im not sure whats the best way to go about it. I'm not sure how to put my work into something? Like how to make a project and do stuff that actually means something apposed to random drawings.

>>3819890That's what I started doing, I would use a somewhat hard brush but also use the blur tool (i have csp so no smudge brush but blur does basically the same) to give colors softer edges.But when I look at the artists I like that work with hard brushes they don't really blur to blend for the vast majority of their work. Besides, isn't the whole point of telling begs to use a hard brush to teach them to not rely on blending?I just have no idea how it works though. It feels like using a hard brush for everything works only for people that already have the manual skill and knowledge of colors to pull it off.

>>3818885Same. What helps me a little bit is to slow down when I'm drawing. Drawing when tired takes more effort, and I need to adjust my speed to compensate for that. Trying to draw at the same pace means that I skip noticing important things and mess things up. Just taking a little bit more time helps.

>>3815417>So is hacking themHacking is not always that hard, all you need to do is find one vulnerability, and it's enough to bring the whole thing crashing down. You don't need to know all of Computer Science to hack, just enough to exploit whatever it is you're looking at.

Drawing like a pro actually requires you to get the whole thing right. You have to actually need all of your fundamentals down across the board, instead of relying on some specialized trick, otherwise part of your drawing will be wrong.

>>3795656>SqtChances are I came to the right thread..Wanting to renew my guitar(pic almost related) but I don't really have a clue what to do with it.Does anyone have ideas? It could be sprayed in any color but I assume white would be best to draw on..I'm open to any suggestion other than anime stuff..(no offense)..On a even wider shot I'd probably be looking to hire someone for that

I cant draw hair well, especially female. Can i get some recommended books for that? Also what is a good way to learn new hairstyles? One last thing: between ZIG KureColor and BeCreative markers, which one is better?

>>3820300Write a story script, make it half decent, then draw accordingly to the needs of the story. Are you drawing traditional or digitial? If you are doing the latter, it’a much easier and you could even get a webcomic started.

Example: Protagonist A has to go to the market to obtain bread. (Decide the time period/setting) what kind of things would it be around them? Are the other characters relatively Norma or grotesque? Do they sell normalish items? Are the shops modern with nice windows? Is it a small town with stalls? Get to your baker: is she a nice old lady? A bulky, hairy, short but boisterous man? Does he only make bread? How is the bread arranged around him?

Just use a hard brush to paint a black and white sphere. Keep adding transitional values until it looks like nice lit sphere. Try zooming out as well to see the effect more easily. When you don't blend it can be hard to see the effect with your nose in the canvas (or screen).

Look to traditional tiling as a method.muddycolors.com/2016/10/tiling-as-a-technique/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4wkJjMon4o

>>3819887paint in tiles. edges exist because of contrast which can be hue, value, and/or chroma. with a hard brush you can still get soft edges based on the color. experiment with an opaque brush (this is hard but trains you well), then eventually move on to opacity/flow jitter and the color picker. Then open it up after mixing methods once you have practiced. Blending is like the final 10% of a piece, you don't have to go to it so early.

>>3820528Some people have the right combination of talent and skill to skip that part. Some don't. It can't hurt, in any case. A portrait artist has a person sitting in front of them, or photos, so it's not needed. Drawing something from imagination, it's helpful.

The more confident you get, the more you'll be able to skip the foundational stuff. You don't have to become an expert at drawing skulls, but a basic grasp is always useful.

>>3819901Listen to me millenial. I have a secret for you to make it.Ready?Draw. Draw. Draw. Draw more."B-but I don't know how to"Yes ! Exactly, you don't. Now say you want to learn boxing. Figure you can do it by asking questions? Fuck no. You have have to get punched and fail a lot to get the feel of how fighting actually works and start forming habits and make theory click.

So make a comic. If it sucks, nobody has to see it, but it will be very valuable experience, more than looking for answers.